Want to really make sense of Spanish society and Spanish current affairs? Tuning into the funniest news satire TV programmes or reading the satirical press will help you to understand the Spanish zeitgeist.

Satirical journalism has been around in Spain for over two centuries, even managing to survive throughout Franco's 40-year dictatorship, albeit with fewer publications.

But ever since Spain had its transición to democracy in the late seventies, satire in the media has been able to operate freely, often testing the limits of what's acceptable.

Crucially, Spanish news satire offers foreigners in Spain a chance to truly understand what's on Spaniards' minds, improve their Spanish (as a high level of under